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KnowledgeBases > Perspectives on the Indian Reorganization Act

During its debate and following its passage the Indian Reorganization Act certainly had its supporters and critics. The following offers three differing views of the Act and an assessment of its impact after the passage of time. Each interview is offered in printed and audio forms.

Each interview's description is from the respective History Matters web page about that interview.

“It Set the Indian Aside as a Problem” A Sioux Attorney Criticizes the Indian Reorganization Act - In this 1968 interview with historian Joseph H. Cash, attorney Ramon Roubideaux, a Brule Sioux, denounced the Indian Reorganization Act as “a white man’s idea” of how Indians should live and argued that it “set the Indian people aside from the mainstream of American life and made them a problem.”

“It Had a Lot of Advantages”Alfred DuBray Praises the Indian Reorganization Act - In this 1970 interview, Sioux tribal leader Alfred DuBray argued that the Indian New Deal, on balance, brought positive changes."

“It Didn’t Pan Out as We Thought It Was Going To” Amos Owen on the Indian Reorganization Act - In this 1970 interview with historian Herbert T. Hoover, Amos Owen, Mdewakanton Sioux tribal chairman, gave a mixed verdict on the Indian Reorganization Act."
 

Source:
History Matters, Created by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY)and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University).

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